Yes, the inbound and outbound trip can take place at any time, in any order. This mean in your case: You can travel once from Germany and once into Germany EACH day of your travel days. As long as the starting point and final destination DECLARED in the “my trip” section are both not in Germany, there shold be no legal trouble for you. If you got some exchanges with the insector anyway, just explain.
Ah, thanks for this then. It answered a lot of my concerns. Yeah, the Netherlands being the only countty with widespread use of e-gates creates a lot of grey areas haha (not being negative, just noticing) By the way, QR codes are not guaranteed to work at these gates, especially QR codes on a screen; also NS has chosen not to open the gates if you have a ticket Belgium ↔ Germany via the Netherlands and to show an incorrect error message instead (but that is another topic...). Anyway, should one of these pesky gates ever refuse to recognise your ticket, just press on the blue Info button, which is usually next to the wide gate, and say you have a valid international ticket but the gates don't like it. The people at the call centre have always been very quick and helpful to me to open a gate. Thanks for the advice. I have a personal OV-chipkaart, so I can open the gates if the tickets turn bananas anyway.
The QR Code for Netherlands on the paperpasses covers was a 3months QR Code (longest validity of Interrailpasses) within these 3 months you could enter dutch stations as much you like. :) even if you had pass with shorter validity I didn't know that! I knew it only was a code to open the gates, but I didn't know it had some information about the validity of the pass in it. Cool! The Code had no informations about the validity :) When you scan it the timer for this specific Qr Code started on the System of NS and after 3 Months the system blocked this specific QR Code. When i travel as railemployee to Netherlands i got a papercard with a QR Code that is valid for 48hrs after first scanning after 48hrs the QR Code is not valid anymore. and i need a new one. Ah, thanks for this then. It answered a lot of my concerns. Yeah, the Netherlands being the only countty with widespread use of e-gates creates a lot of grey areas haha (not being negative, just noticing)
I can’t imagine any of these things will be a problem - people are (mostly) reasonable, so if necessary, just explain the situation and show your pass and I’m sure you’ll be allowed to travel freely without hindrance, ticket gates or not! Yeah I mostly agree to you, but the problem is there is no people in this process, only electronic gates. if someone travels from somewhere else in NL, check outs at a Dutch border station to transfer to the cross-border platform. The electronic database of the Netherlands will register that trip and they will see it as a domestic one, since the cross-border platform does not have the same electronic gates, there is no legal way to prove the traveller will continue the journey outbound, instead of staying in NL. And, because it is an automated system, there is a risk of the pass not being able to open the electronic gate at those border stations in the first place, because the system assumes that the traveller will go straight to other countries with
The travel diary example looks odd because it was probably put together before Eurostar was included in the pass, which only happened comparatively recently. The person filling it out has travelled from Paris to London with a separate full-fare ticket, and therefore has not recorded it in the travel diary; so London St. Pancras to Brighton is just the last leg of their journey home. It is legitimate to take as many trains and make as many changes as are necessary for you to go from your starting point (which doesn’t actually need to be your place of residence) to another country, or to an international port or airport (or city/town with one) that you intend to use. Passing through electronic gates won’t be a problem, as both types of pass theoretically come with a readily and limitlessly accessible QR code which can scan you through - or just show your pass to a member of staff if this doesn’t work. The number of uses is not limited. You’re not actively encouraged to make lengthy stop
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